Example sentences of "[prep] he and [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith sank down into a chair the moment the outer door had closed behind him and discovered that she was trembling . |
| 2 | I really wanted to identify with him and wished that I could have said that I had been in the Falklands or in Northern Ireland , thereby establishing some sort of link . |
| 3 | She remonstrated with him and explained that she had stopped because she had never seen such a fish before . |
| 4 | When its flapping had started to irritate me , I snatched it from him and saw that it was ruled like a timetable . |
| 5 | Since then he had often recalled what Adam said next , had taken the gun from him and remarked that it was a pump-action shot-gun . |
| 6 | His mother had returned home without him and stated that she had never felt he was really her baby . |
| 7 | Moran had written to him and assumed that he would come . |
| 8 | He says I 'd better go and check the money so he said erm but what he could n't understand was they wrote to him and said that they have n't paid the cheques but they did n't say anything about freezing his account ! |
| 9 | He hugged her to him and insisted that she had a drink on the house . |
| 10 | As the Scot pushed his way past me I grabbed him , put an arm-lock on him and suggested that he had a drink elsewhere . |
| 11 | But , as she looked at him and witnessed that he was white with temper , so ‘ furious ’ seemed to be too mild a word . |
| 12 | She turned to stare at him and saw that he was smiling — a twisted smile that made her colour rise quickly . |
| 13 | She started to bristle , but then she looked at him and saw that his smile was open and good-humoured . |